Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean about 4000 miles from the coast of Chile, is one of the most isolated places in the world. It is best known for the Moai, monolithic statues of human figures carved from volcanic rock and located around the island. While today the Moai are a great source of revenue from tourists who flock to the island, research suggests that their construction actually led to the decline and eventual collapse of the island’s culture.
First of all, evidence suggests that the obsession which the people of Easter Island had with building the Moai led to non-productive use of natural resources, specifically of the island’s forests. The Moai were huge, with some weighing nearly eighty tons. Moving them from the quarries where they were carved to their intended resting spots required the use of wooden tracks equipped with log rollers. The islanders cut down vast amounts of valuable trees for no other purpose that to move the statues across their island.
Moai construction continued for centuries and eventually every single tree on the island was cut down to build the aforementioned tracks. This complete deforestation had disastrous effects on the island. Migratory birds, which had been a big part of the islander’s diet stopped coming to Easter Island. Meanwhile, the fishing industry on the island collapsed because the leaves of the island’s palm trees had been used to construct fishing boats. In addition, soil erosion caused by the lack of trees made it difficult to even grown food.
Finally, the above issues lead to a major population decline. From a high of twenty thousand people at the peak of its civilization, only two thousand people remained when European explorers first reached Easter Island in the eighteenth century. This mass die-off was clearly a result of the food shortage described above. Human remains from the period suggest that the population descended into cannibalism as things got progressively worse over the years.
The article discuss a fascinating topic related to Moai, the monolithic statues in the Easter Island of the coast of chile and it states that the construction of these monolithic statues of human figures led to the destruction of the island's culture. Further, the article provided three reasons to substantiate the claim. However, the professor explains that the construction Moai's statues are the not the reason for the decline for the Easter Island and he refutes all the reasons provided in the article.
Firstly, the reading passage states that the people of Easter Island used the natural resources nonproductively. In addition it describes that the islanders cut vast amount of trees and made wooden tracks with rollers. These wooden tracks are used for the purpose of transporting statues. However the lecturer refutes the article by explaining that trees are not cut for the transportation of the Statues. Instead they used teams, which fasted the ropes to statues and themselves and moved them by tilting them side to side. This method has been replicated using modern tools also.
Secondly, the professor contradicts the author claim that most of the forest has been deforested by the people of Easter Islands. Instead the lecturer states that recent excavation for the Easter Islands shows the rats from the boats are the main reason for deforestation, because all the palm seeds recently excavated had been damaged by rats.
Finally, the article states that population of the Easter Island reduced from 20000 to 2000 by the European first discovered the island. In contrast the professor states that the peak population of the Easter Island of 20000 was a guessed value, since, the origin of the Island was found to date 1200 A.D. and there was not enough time for population to establish.
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Suggestion: not the
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Suggestion: addition,
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Suggestion: However,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, in addition, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1511.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 296.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10472972973 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62344731289 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489864864865 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 454.5 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2527222003 49.2860985944 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.230769231 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7692307692 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61538461538 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200611335505 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0669455327713 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653946033274 0.0662205650399 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12162161177 0.162205337803 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0568612884744 0.0443174109184 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.